McCaskill says Cruz wants to “drive off the right edge of the world”

This morning, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosted Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. When asked about the state of the Republican party, McCaskill said they are a mess. McCaskill said the Republican party is in a civil war between those who recognize the ”beauty of compromise” in our democracy, and the hard line right.

“You’ve got people who are willing to compromise and who understand the beauty of compromise in our democracy, and then you have people like Ted Cruz and some of the others that just think that they want to drive as hard as they can off the right edge of the world.”

McCaskill said she won her seat because the Republican party nominated a candidate that was so extreme, and that those extreme beliefs are the base of the Republican Party.

This isn’t the first time the senator from Missouri has gone after Cruz. McCaskill was one of the Democrats who criticized Cruz for his “McCarthy style questioning” during the Hagel nominations.

A Cruz spokesman responded to her comments by suggesting McCaskill “take up Sen. Cruz’s longstanding invitation to work together — Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and independents — on positive, pro-growth legislation to restore economic prosperity.”